TOGETHER FOREVER.

Hi everyone, this is the first of two parts of this story- it's basically just a quick follow-up to The First Day I Saw you- Nancy and Ned stuff. Hope you enjoy, please review. :)

Nancy Drew couldn't stop grinning as she drove to Emerson College. In fact, she thought, I havn't been able to stop grinning since last weekend. That was wheen she and Ned, her boyfriend, had decided to spent this weekend camping in the woods. Just the two of them.

Even though she and Ned had only been going out a month, a week of which was taken up with an extremely stressful case for Nancy, they'd still managed to become very close. And last weekend he'd told her that he loved her. Nancy felt her heart flutter at the memory.

Nancy and Ned were standing on her front porch, reluctantly saying goodnight. Ned's arms were around her, not wanting to let her go. Nancy's face was pressed against his chest. They'd made plans to go camping the next weekend, and it was only five days away, yet neither of them wanted to say goodbye.

Finally Nancy pulled back and looked into Ned's eyes. "Well, I guess I better go in. You've got a long drive back," she smoothed his hair, "And I don't want you falling asleep at the wheel."

Ned nodded and leaned in to kiss her. When they finally broke apart, he looked into her eyes for a long moment. "Nancy…"

"Yeah?"

"I- there's something I want to tell you."

Nancy looked at him expectantly. "What?"

"I-love-you," Ned said in a rush, his face turing red when Nancy didn't answer right away.

"I love you, too," Nancy finally said when she caught her breath.

Ned looked amazed. "Really? You really love me?"

Nancy nodded and thew her arms around his neck. "I do love you."

Ned hugged her tight. "Oh, I'm so glad. I've wanted to say that to you all wekend but I wasn't- I mean, I didn't… I wasn't sure if you felt the same way."

Nancy smiled. "Well, I don't think you have anything to worry about."

Five minutes later Nancy was pulling up in front of Ned's fraternity, Omega Chi Epsilon. She'd only been to Emerson once, for a dance two weeks ago.

Nancy spotted Ned's car, so she knew he was home. Grabbing her backpack, she walked inside and was greeted with wolf whistles and approving glances.

"Hey, hey, knock it off she's taken," a voice said jokingly from the kitchen.

Nancy turned and saw Ned, a big grin on his face, standing behind the sink washing dishes. He held up his soapy, gloved hands. "Sorry, I'll have to give you a hug in a minute, but in the mean time…" he leaned over and gave her a long kiss.

"Ooohh," the other guys in the room chorused when the pulled apart. "Got yourself a fine looking girl there, I see, Nickerson," one of the guys teased

Ned took it in good humor. "Sure do, Matt- keep your hands off her!"

Nancu laughed and squeezed Ned's arm.

"Guys, this is Nancy," Ned said. "And Nancy, this is- everyone," he said, gesturing to the twenty or so guys in the room. "I'm sure they'd all love to tell you their names," he said with a grin.

Nancy smiled at them. "Hi."

Ten minutes later Ned was finished with the dishes and he gave Nancy a strong hug, then took her hand and lead her up to his room.

"It's kinda late to go camping tonight," Ned said, gesturing out the window where darkness was quickly falling. "So I thought we'd maybe go early tomorrow morning so we can put the tent up in the light. I know we'd only have one night then, but…"

Nancy squeezed his hand and dropped her bag on the floor . "No problem, I think that would be better, too. But- where am I going to stay tonight?"

"Well, I thought maybe I could set up a matress in here. I'll sleep on the matress- you can have my bed. Unless you're uncomfortable with being in the same room… I mean, I could find somewhere else for you to sleep, I just thought this would be easier if we're gonna leave early, but-"

"Ned!" Nancy interupted, "It's fine. I don't mind sleeping here. I mean, we're going to be in the same tent anyway- what's the difference?"

"True," Ned said with a grin. "I never thought of that."

Nancy playfully punched him on the arm. "Sure you didn't."

"No, I swear-" seeing Nancy's teasing smile, he broke off, tackling her at the waist so they both landed on his bed.

"She's down!" he exclaimed, reaching up and tickling her under her arms.

Nancy managed to squirm away and dived on top of him. They were still wrestling several minutes later when the phone rang. Ned sat up and answered it, while Nancy leaned back against the pillows, listening to Ned's side of the conversation.

"Yeah, mom," he was saying.

"Don't worry…No! Mom!…Well, we weren't, you have nothing to worry about," Ned glanced quickly at Nancy and gave her a small smile before turning around again.

He must be talking about me, Nancy thought.

"Yeah…I don't kknow if she is or not, I didn't ask!…No, we've only been going out a month! Jeez!"

Ok, Nancy thought, they were deffinately talking about her.

"Maybe you were like that at eighteen or nineteen, but…Yeah, I know…I will…well, yeah, but not now…Okaaaay…Bye, Mom."

Ned rolled his eyes when he turned back to Nancy. "She thought- Oh, never mind."

Nancy raised her eyebrows. "She thought what?" she asked, although she had a funny feeling she knew.

Ned shook his head. "Nothing. It's embarassing."

"Tell me! I think I know what you're going to say, anyway."

"Ok. She was calling to ask me if you were on the pill, or if I had protection, is case…" Ned trailed off, his face red with embarassemnt.

Nancy laughed. "Why would she think we were going to do that this weekend? Unless- you weren't planning on…?" she asked, her heart thudding.

"No!" Ned exclaimed. "Not at all! I just thought this would just be a fun trip, that's all."

Nancy felt her heart slow down. "Good. I mean, I do want to, you know. One day. But now it's too soon."

Ned nodded. "I know." He squeezed her hand. "Don't worry. I might be a nineteen year old guy- don't tell the guys I said this- but, I don't think I'm ready either."

Nancy smiled and leaned her head against his shoulder. "So you've never done it before?"

Ned shook his head. "I know, college frat guy, it sounds unbelievable, but it's true."

"I'm glad," Nancy whispered into his shoulder.

Ned put his arm around her and pulled her closer. "Me, too. I wanted to wait for the right person," he said, giving her a squeeze. "And I may have found her, but like you said, the time has to right, too."

Later that night after dinner, Nancy and Ned were back in his room, making out on Ned's bed.

"Hey, Nan," Ned said when they finally sat up a while later, "I know what we said earlier, but if you want we can both sleep in my bed. Not do anything, of course," he added quickly, "I just thought that maybe it would be ok. I dunno."

Nancy smiled and smoothed his hair and rumpled shirt. "I think it would be more than ok." She could feel Ned smile against her lips when she leaned in to kiss him again.

Half an hour later Nancy went to change into her pajamas whiles Ned changed in his room.

When she came out, he was lying in bed, a shy smile on his face. Nancy crawled onto the other side of the bed and got in beside hime. She'd never slept in the same bed as a guy before. Not even with her last boyfriend, James, and they'd been going out for a year. Yet here she was with Ned, after only a month. And she didn't even feel nervous.

Maybe it's just that he's older, she thought. No, there's something special about him.

As if Ned had read her thoughts, he moved closer and pulled her into his arms, resting his cheek against the top of her head.

"I love you," Nancy whispered against him.

"I love you, too," Ned whispered back.

That's part one, I'll write the rest later. :)